About Centre Circle
Our Game is Football, Women’s Football! We give you news, fixtures, results, in-depth interviews and more – keeping you up to date with women’s football. Our aim is to promote the women’s game with quality and balanced reporting – giving women the voice to tell their own stories
Centre Circle was born out of a need for us to play our part in promoting women’s football. There are so many women footballers in our country, and all have a story to tell, but sadly those go untold.
The main aim is to give women their voice – to let them tell their stories from their own perspective.
The leader of this project is Matlhomola Morake – a trained journalist dwith a Diploma in Journalism obtained at the then Technikon Natal (now known as the Durban University of Technology – DUT) Morake has loads of experience in sports reporting having joined the SABC in 1996. He reported on sports until his departure in 2009 where he joined the South African Football Association (SAFA).
Morake is a founder member of the Sports Desk of the currently on-going Morning Live on SABC TV where he anchored the slot alongside Tracy Going and the late Vuyo Mbuli.
During his time at Auckland Park, Morake covered all the sporting codes as one of the reporters but specialised in Football.
He has travelled extensively around the globe with the Springboks, Bafana Bafana and Banyana Banyana.
He was also the main reporter for the SABC in Zurich, Switzerland when South Africa was awarded the rights to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Morake has covered several Africa Cup of Nations tournament on behalf of the SABC.
He has been to five FIFA World Cup tournaments (France 1998, Korea & Japan 2002, Germany 2006 – all as journalist) as well as a Media Officer: SA 2010 (Bafana Bafana) & France 2019 (Banyana Banyana).
The latter tournament is where the idea of women’s football website was born.